OSCARS 2016: If I Gave the Oscars…

Tomorrow’s the Super Bowl of movies: The Oscars. More than in most years, the 88th Academy Awards’ nominations are relatively fair in recognition of what actually was the best in cinema in 2015. Of course, as protested snubs like Ridley Scott and Idris Elba illustrate, what’s nominated for Oscars is never exactly what you’d think should be. Now, if I nominated the Oscars…

(My selections for the ultimate winners are in *bold*. Movies that weren’t nominated for Oscars are in orange.)

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(I haven’t seen enough movies to fairly comment on the following categories: Best Animated Short, Best Documentary Feature, Best Documentary Short, Best Foreign-Language Film, and Best Live-Action Short.)